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Eat+Drink
May 10, 2012
The Original Food Trucks
Loncheras are riding the food truck tidal wave
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May 10, 2012
Patricia Nazario Considers Traditional Food Trucks How They've Evolved Post Kogi
If you only started eating your dinner at taco trucks after Roy Choi revolutionized the food truck scene, you might not realize that food trucks have been lining the streets of this town for a very long time. In today's feature food story, journalist and documentarian Patricia Nazario looks at the t ... More >>
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April 13, 2012
CicLAvia: Bike, Eat, Repeat En Route Establishments and Food Truck Finishes
The fourth CicLAvia bike event opens the streets of downtown L.A. to non-motorists this Sunday, April 15. Originating in Bogota, Columbia, in 1974, the South American event now reserves a whopping 75 miles of street for cyclists and pedestrians. Here at home, we'll see a 10 mile web with 5 branches ... More >>
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March 27, 2012
Free Food Truck Fest Tonight: May the Odds Be Ever in Your Favor
Tonight starting at 5:30 p.m., BBC America will host a free food truck fest at the Santa Monica Food Truck Lot at Main and Ocean to promote the premiere of No Kitchen Required. The new reality competition show is a sort of Top Chef-meets-Survivor battle in which a trio of chefs "are dropped off in ... More >>
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March 21, 2012
L.A. Food Truck Driver Dies in Crash With Mercedes Near Pico-Union
Update: The dead driver has been identified as 55-year-old L.A. resident Elba Escobar. More at the bottom. Originally posted March 20 at 6:10 p.m. A horrific crash between a food truck and a Mercedes in the Pico-Union area of central Los Angeles has left one dead and two seriously injured, says Se ... More >>
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March 14, 2012
Fuck SXSW: 10 Ways to Re-Create It in Los Angeles
South by Southwest (or just "South by" if you're cool and/or in a fake hurry) is well under way, with the interactive and film portions kicking off last weekend and the biggest draw, the music, just beginning. Couldn't make it all the way to Texas? Fuck it. For those of us left behind, we bring you ... More >>
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January 6, 2012
Mac & Cheeza to Launch Food Truck(s) -- & Franchise?
We caught up with Mac & Cheeza owner Larkin Mackey yesterday afternoon, who gave us the scoop on the meltery's landlord problems and its expansions plans. These days, Mackey splits his time between L.A. and LA (Louisiana, that is), where he's working on launching a Mac & Cheeza food truck in New ... More >>
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November 17, 2011
Coolhaus in Culver City Opening Tonight: Free Ice Cream
Guzzle and Nosh/FlickrWhat's cooler than being cool? (Ice cold) free Coolhaus sandwiches! As if we weren't excited enough for Coolhaus' brick-and-mortar shop in Culver City to finally open, they sweetened the deal by announcing that tonight at 6 p.m., when the doors are unlatched, they'll be ... More >>
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November 15, 2011
Santa Monica to Ban Late-Night Food Trucks on Main; City Council Apparently Unfamiliar With Drunk Munchies
curvewire.comSay your goodbyes, kiddos.Wack! The seven City Councilmembers occupying that gorgeous beachside Hall over in Santa Monica seem to have little idea what keeps the party people going a few blocks south. They've tentatively approved an ordinance that will ban food trucks on Main St ... More >>
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September 2, 2011
Granada Hills Cracks Down on Food Trucks
Guzzle & NoshHungry Angelenos line up at a food truck.The newest front in the Food Truck Wars is Granada Hills, where 10 inspectors from the L.A. County Department of Public Health showed up on Wednesday night to raid "Food Truck Night" along Chatsworth Avenue between Zelzah and White Oak. ... More >>
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August 16, 2011
NoHo Food Truck Cook-Off Invites Amateur Taco Slingers
Guzzle and Nosh"Nothing ever happens in North Hollywood"? The NoHo Taco Cook-Off is the third in a series of events -- the NoHo Food Truck festivals in March and June being the first and second -- that brings together local music, dance performances and food in an effort to show off this part ... More >>
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August 15, 2011
Westside Food Truck Central Lot Closes -- Temporarily?
Guzzle & NoshWestside Food Truck Central at the corner of Washington & Overland.A window opens, a door closes. As part of a broader crackdown on the constantly expanding fleet of nouveau food trucks, city inspectors are taking a hard look at food truck lots. Westside Food Truck Central (@Food ... More >>
Blogs
June 24, 2011
Top 5 Weekend Food Events: Farmageddon, Food Trucks, Beer, Oysters
Farmageddon - Movie Trailer from Kristin Canty on Vimeo. Farmageddon This documentary featuring farmer/activist Joel Salatin focuses the escalating fight for food rights in America and the suspect motives (can anyone say corporate-driven farm subsidies?) of the government's food safety "experts." ... More >>
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June 22, 2011
L.A. Street Food Fest: Trucks, Beer, Breathing Room No Waiting
The complaint is nothing new. You spend your hard-earned money on a food truck festival and end up stuck in lines windier than the yellow brick road, slow-cooking in the sun, only to head home only after just a bite or two. But that won't be the case at the 2nd Annual L.A. Street Food Fest Su ... More >>
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June 16, 2011
Roadstoves: A Call for Civility Among Food Trucks
Benjamin SimpsonJosh Hiller takes food trucks seriously. The fryers, grills and steam tables are turned off, but the insides of the food trucks stored in the parking lot of Josh Hiller's business are greenhouse-hot. Most have, on the ceiling, a small blue window that tilts open, but they clea ... More >>
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June 10, 2011
Food Truck in New York Begins Selling Alcohol: Start Spreading the News
Photo via DNAinfo.For once we're going to concede that New York is ahead of the game. Manhattan news outlet DNAinfo reports that Pera's Turkish Taco truck began serving alcohol today alongside its street fare. Pera's is the first food truck with a liquor license in the city.
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May 20, 2011
Marvin Gapultos: Adobo Road
Kevin ScanlonMarvin Gapultos Not so long ago, Marvin Gapultos was a marketing writer for a software company, and the Filipino food he grew up with was incidental music in an otherwise busy life. Then, as so many people did in 2008, he lost his job and began recalibrating what he wanted that l ... More >>
LA Life
May 19, 2011
Misa Chien and Jenn Green: Hot Asian Sandwich
Kevin ScanlonMarvin Gapultos Not so long ago, Marvin Gapultos was a marketing writer for a software company, and the Filipino food he grew up with was incidental music in an otherwise busy life. Then, as so many people did in 2008, he lost his job and began recalibrating what he wanted that l ... More >>
LA Life
May 19, 2011
Marvin Gapultos: Adobo Road
Kevin ScanlonMarvin Gapultos Not so long ago, Marvin Gapultos was a marketing writer for a software company, and the Filipino food he grew up with was incidental music in an otherwise busy life. Then, as so many people did in 2008, he lost his job and began recalibrating what he wanted that l ... More >>
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May 19, 2011
Misa Chien and Jenn Green: Hot Asian Sandwich
Kevin ScanlonMisa Chien and Jenn Green How much of the Nom Nom Truck's success is attributable to its owners being two gorgeous, brainy young Asian girls inside a food truck, and how much to the food? "I don't want there to be a misconception that the truck is about two girls on a truck," co ... More >>
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May 13, 2011
Food Truck Friday: Heirloom LA
The Heirloom LA food truck (@wpheirloomla) is something of a paradox, nudging at the boundaries of mobile cuisine while undercutting its basic precepts. Street food should be simple. It should be quick, easy to scarf down. And it should definitely be cheap. Or so thin thinking goes. Heirloom LA is ... More >>
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May 5, 2011
Food Truck Derby: Free Food and Drink, Though No Drag Racing
Food trucks have been around long enough now that food truck festivals seem almost as common as the trucks themselves. Nothing particularly wrong with that, so why not make this the summer of food truck festivals. There's no time like the present to kick it off, since this Saturday the fabul ... More >>
Blogs
May 2, 2011
Last Night: Top 10 Quotes from KCRW's Global Street Food Panel
Guzzle & NoshCrowds wait in fron of the Nom Nom Truck (left); a taco from Mariscos Jalisco (right).If you've been to some of the apallingly oversold food truck festivals of the past couple years, the sight of lines snaking around food trucks outside the Broad Stage on Sunday morning should ha ... More >>
Art+Books
April 21, 2011
Kogi Meets Googie
Graphic design helps food trucks get attention
Blogs
April 14, 2011
Look At This Fuckin' Hipster Food Truck: Your Daily Dose of Food Truck Rage
Screen grab from Look At This Fuckin' Hipster Food TruckIf we were an old-school lonchera, we'd be pissed too. We might look at the wave of nouveau food trucks and think: "All it took was a shiny paint job, a punny name and a Twitter feed?!" Finally, someone has harnessed all that anger int ... More >>
Blogs
April 8, 2011
CSI: NY Blows Up a Food Truck
Please enjoy our terrible Photoshop work. The food truck business is booming... literally. (Yes, we sometimes borrow our ledes from TV voiceovers.) In "Food For Thought," tonight's episode of CSI: NY, "the team enters the competitive world of gourmet food trucks when one explodes at a SoHo f ... More >>
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April 5, 2011
Masa Revolution: Patricia Nazario's Food Truck Documentary Project
The revolution may or may not be televised, but it will certainly be filmed, especially when veteran broadcast journalist Patricia Nazario is running the show, and when the revolution in question is the new wave of food trucks. Masa Revolution is the name of both a website and an in-progress bilin ... More >>
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March 31, 2011
More Fun in the Valley: The SGV Food Truck Festival
sgvfoodtruckfest.comJanuary SGV food truck fest If you're tired of trekking west for food truck convoys -- or dealing with the parking issues on Abbot Kinney -- this Friday's monthly SGV Food Truck Festival is your chance to eat standing up considerably east of the 405. The SGV Food Truck Fe ... More >>
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March 22, 2011
Evan Kleiman Talks Global Street Food - Tickets on Sale Tomorrow
Street food existed long before the myriad of Twittering food trucks took over Los Angeles. Evan Kleiman (chef/owner of Angeli Caffe, host of KCRW's Good Food) reminds us of that on May 1st, when she moderates the Global Street Food event featuring OC Weekly Managing Editor and food contribut ... More >>
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March 8, 2011
Breadbar Brings Food Trucks Into the Kitchen with Hatchi Truck Stop
Guzzle & NoshBreadbar Century City (left) and the Grill 'Em All truck (right). Is Breadbar bringing its Guest Chef Series to the streets or bringing street food to its guests? Either way, the Century City restaurant will morph its once popular Hatchi Guest Chef Series into the Hatchi Truck St ... More >>
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March 8, 2011
Groupon for Food Trucks: FoodTruckDeals.com Launches
Courtesy of FoodTruckDeals.com.If you still prefer your street food on the street instead of in a restaurant at $8 per plate, FoodTruckDeals.com may be the site for you. Launched only yesterday, the site aims to be the Groupon for the food truck set. It seems like a limited target market, but ... More >>
Blogs
March 8, 2011
Stephen Box, City Council District 4 Challenger, Has Best Balls in L.A. Tweeting on His Behalf
We love you, Stephen, tweet tweet.Stephen Box, candidate for City Council District 4, has food trucks tweeting up a storm for him. @greatballsot (Great Balls On Tires) tweets: "You've voted us as best BALLS in L.A., now vote for BOX because he supports Food Trucks in District 4. Get out an ... More >>
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January 31, 2011
Last Night: Food Truck Waterloo in Santa Anita
There's no surer bet these days than rounding out an event -- a street fair, a concert, a community festival -- with a few nouveau food trucks. Even the mediocre trucks, and there are plenty, are bound to be better than the grim array of vendors who usually populate these affairs. ($10 for a burnt ... More >>
Blogs
January 28, 2011
Santa Anita Food Truck Festival: Your Cross-Addiction Daily Double
Flickr/R. E. ~Border Grill Truck's ceviche If you like the ponies and you've long been looking for a way to combine your secret gambling habit with your love for food trucks, you've hit the proverbial jackpot. The Santa Anita Food Truck Festival is tomorrow, Saturday, January 29th, from 11:3 ... More >>
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January 13, 2011
Food Truck Justice: Miguel Morales and Dainler Baquevano Charged with Extorting "Rent" from Vendors
by ricardodiaz11 via flickrRecently, it seems that food trucks have been getting the shaft. First, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved restaurant-style letter grades, meaning pesky health inspections for the mobile eateries. And earlier this month, a band of Abbot Kinney store ... More >>
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January 11, 2011
Venice's First Friday: 7 Food Trucks in Search of a Policy
S. WilsonVenice First Friday As we reported here, the most recent First Friday event along Venice's Abbot Kinney Boulevard was complicated by the ongoing lack of consensus (that's putting it mildly) between the food trucks, the Venice merchants, the Abbot Kinney Merchants Committee (AKMC), an ... More >>
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January 10, 2011
Venice 'First Fridays' Food Trucks Scared Off -- Again -- By Abbot Kinney Merchants
The Brig parking lot, full of food trucks, was the only thing crowded about this month's First Friday in VeniceOnly seven food trucks were brave enough to park along Abbot Kinney Boulevard last Friday evening. They had been completely in the dark -- right up to the 6 p.m. start time of the m ... More >>
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January 7, 2011
Q & A With Jason Travi, Part 2: Flipflops at Spago, Food Trucks Why Every Chef Should Gas Up With Fryer Oil
A. ScattergoodJason Travi at Firefly When we left off talking to Jason Travi, the chef was discussing the relative merits of being a third generation chef, why he didn't start cooking until the comparatively ancient age of 15, and how his father didn't want him working in the family business. ... More >>
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January 7, 2011
Lords of Dogtown: The Continuing Saga of Food Trucks Venice's First Fridays
Guzzle & Nosh Will there be food trucks at tonight's first 2011 installment of First Fridays? Maybe, maybe not, but contrary to various reports (including on this blog), no happy agreement has been reached between the Abbot Kinney Merchants Committee (AKMC) and the SoCal Mobile Food Vendors ... More >>
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December 10, 2010
[Updated] No Parking for Food Trucks at Venice First Fridays
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December 10, 2010
Woodland Hills Rotary Arts & Crafts Fair: Food Trucks, Photography & More
Flickr/Rios-EnriquezLake Street Creamery, one of the food trucks at this weekend's Rotary Arts & Crafts Fair L.A. is chalk full of holiday events this weekend -- from downtown's Artisanal L.A. to Bond Appetit: James Bond, Foodie event -- and now the Valley is getting into the mix. On Saturda ... More >>
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September 21, 2010
Uh-Oh: L.A. Food Trucks Are Going To Get Some Etiquette Rules From The Pencil Pushers
Food trucks used to be the domain of Mexican mom-and-pop operations that sold palm-sized tacos and candy colored sodas. Now they're reality TV fodder, mobile paeans to the urban hipster and .. the focus of intense regulatory scrutiny. In other words bureaucrats have discovered them and want ... More >>
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September 13, 2010
L.A. County To Consider Health Grades For Food Trucks
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors will take up the issue of whether or not to give restaurant-style health grades to food trucks. The board was originally scheduled to consider the matter Tuesday but the proposal was postponed until next week. County public health director Jonathan ... More >>
Blogs
September 9, 2010
Harvard Economist Edward Glaeser On Food Trucks And How To Regulate Them
Edward Glaeser, the Harvard economist who is an expert on what makes some cities thrive while others flounder, has a good piece in the Boston Globe about food trucks and how they should be regulated. Here's the great lede, one that L.A. residents can understand: Economists like myself often ... More >>
Blogs
August 12, 2010
Food Trucks May Be Required To Make Restroom Available To Employees
There's one aspect of Wednesday's City Council hearing on regulating food trucks that we neglected to mention -- and it's a significant oversight: The suggestion that food trucks may be required, as per county health regulations, to provide access to an up-to-code bathroom for employees, just ... More >>
Blogs
August 12, 2010
Great Food Truck Race: 5 Questions for 5 Trucks
Contestants in The Great Food Truck RaceWhile the real food truck wars rage in the city council and on the streets of Los Angeles, the Food Network hopes to cash in on the mobile eatery trend with The Great Food Truck Race, a lighthearted reality show that debuts this Sunday, August 15th. I ... More >>
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July 22, 2010
ATTENTION FOOD TRUCKERS!
Contestants in The Great Food Truck RaceWhile the real food truck wars rage in the city council and on the streets of Los Angeles, the Food Network hopes to cash in on the mobile eatery trend with The Great Food Truck Race, a lighthearted reality show that debuts this Sunday, August 15th. I ... More >>
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May 13, 2010
Fusion Fridays
Contestants in The Great Food Truck RaceWhile the real food truck wars rage in the city council and on the streets of Los Angeles, the Food Network hopes to cash in on the mobile eatery trend with The Great Food Truck Race, a lighthearted reality show that debuts this Sunday, August 15th. I ... More >>
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February 5, 2010
THE TRUCKS STOP HERE
Contestants in The Great Food Truck RaceWhile the real food truck wars rage in the city council and on the streets of Los Angeles, the Food Network hopes to cash in on the mobile eatery trend with The Great Food Truck Race, a lighthearted reality show that debuts this Sunday, August 15th. I ... More >>
Blogs
November 3, 2009
Meals On Wheels: A Brief L.A. Food Truck Update
Buttermilk Truck launches the evening of November 11th at The Brig in Venice (via LAist). The Grilled Cheese Truck, which launched last week, just posted this week's schedule on their website. Today, Brentwood. Tomorrow, on KTLA. Flying Pig Truck, which hit the streets in mid-October, is on Cahuen ... More >>
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